In this lesson, students will examine the history of Black Women’s Clubs through the lenses of leadership, action, and bravery along with analyzing the role Black Women’s Clubs played in the Women’s Suffrage movement.

Students will analyze different perspectives of Stacey Abrams’s candidacy for Georgia’s Governor to learn about civic responsibility.

The Delano Grape Strike represents one of the most important labor movements in American history and demonstrates an intersection between the Civil Rights Movement and the movement initiated by the Mexican-American and Filipino-American communities. 

The objective of this lesson is to help students thinking critically about public history and the decision-making that goes into designing and advocating for public memorials to commemorate women in American history.

This mini lesson will introduce students to Ida B. Wells through a primary source and invite students to explore the geography of American lynchings through an interactive map.

Students will use the words of Rep. Shirley Chisholm to better understand her experience, and the experience of women everywhere in America.

This lesson provides an insight into the rhetoric and social action of Fannie Lou Hamer. By focusing on three speeches through her career, students will better be able to understand how Hamer was an agent of change.

This lesson seeks to explore the role of Black women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and their exclusion from the generally accepted Women’s Suffrage narrative.

Lesson plan on Martha Hughes Cannon, the first female state senator in U.S. history.

Students will learn about the purpose and message of Declaration of Independence, question and discover if women had rights in Early America and analyze and compare the Declaration of Sentiments and its message and purpose.

In this lesson, students will explore how or if music reflects society and furthers the goals of activism and protest.

Students will learn about Ida B Wells, Rosa Parks, and Fannie Lou Hammer; all female African American activists who fought for justice and equality.

Students will examine documents to determine if the justice system fair and Constitutional in its treatment of the National Women’s Party picketers

Students will explore the life of Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin by critically reading primary and secondary sources to determine her worldview and perspective.

Students will read the assigned biography and quotes to explore connections between activism and the power of words and ideas.

The 19th Amendment did not come without a prolonged fight. Students will examine rationale for opposing suffrage through the lens of class, immigration status and race.

In this lesson, students will use the Suffrage Timeline to explore the women, ideas, and action that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 and discuss the Woman Suffrage Movement as a model for peaceful activism.

Use Political Cartoons to Explore Women's History

High School Post-Filed Trip Activity

K-8 Post-Field Trip Activity